Improved body-loop for carriages



FLA. OOWLES.

.Garria-ge Iron.

N-0.100,864. Patented March 15, 1870. I V

,W'ituess es. Inventor.

N PETERS. VHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. 0.6.

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FREDRIOK A. OOWLES, or PLANTSVILLEASSIGNOR TO. HIMSELF AND B. SAVAGE, orsournrucron, CONNECTICUT.

Lmm Patent No. 100,864, dated Match 15, 1870.

nvnmovnn BODY-LOOP r012 c'ARRIAGns.

The-$chedu1e referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

Be it known that I, FREDRICK A. Gowilns, .of

Plantsville, in the county of Hartford, and in the State of Connecticut,have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Body-Loops for Carriages;and dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawingmakingapart of this, specification, in which is shown a side elevationof my improved device, as applied to-ihe spring-bar.

' the spring-bar, and is secured thereto by mans'of a bolt passingdownward through both parts.

This method of attaching the loop and spring-bar is, however, open toserious objections, as, in case that the nut works ofi' from the boltused for securing the parts together, a sudden jolt may lift the end ofthe loop from the spring-bar, and wrench and perhaps break-the otherbody-loops. I I

' To obviate these objections, and insure the absolute safety of theconnection between the body-loop and spring-bar, w'hile. unbroken, Iincrease the depth of said loop, A, and provide in and through the samea horizontal opening, corresponding in size and shape with that portionof the spring-bar B in rimmediat-e contact with said loop, so as topermit the latter to be passed over and inclose the former, as shown inthe "drawing.

When thus constructed and combined, a bolt, 0,

secures them firmly together, and. prevents their acci dental separationso long as neither are broken.

It will be seen that as the body-loops are placed in position upon thespring-bar by being passed over its ends, the removal of one or all ofthe'bolts connecting said parts together would not permit of theirseparation so long as said loops were attached to the body, and thatthereby all liability to such accident is .prevented. i

Having thus fully set forth the nature" and merits of my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the body-loop A,

hereunto set my hand this 14th day of February, 1870.

FREDRIOK OONVLESL \Vitnesses:

HENRY R-BRADLEY, J. FLETCHER, Jr.

